When first starting out in affiliate marketing, it’s common to use a blog post, an article, a video or an e-mail to promote affiliate offers. Before long, however, it becomes clear that this is no longer enough, especially if you want to reach the large affiliate commissions earned by those practicing advanced affiliate marketing strategies.

The solution to this transition from affiliate newbie to professional affiliate begins when you learn to build affiliate marketing funnels to promote merchants’ products and services. These funnels not only increase sales and thereby increase affiliate commissions, but also help you to build an opt-in list of targeted affiliate marketing leads for your future promotions as well.

The affiliate marketing funnels may seem daunting at first, but with a bit of practice they’ll become routine. Your affiliate marketing funnels begin with a free report that will appeal to your target market and is offered to them for opting into your mailing list from a page known as a ‘squeeze’ page. Once they have joined your list and confirmed their e-mail address, they are forwarded to the download page to get their report.

While on the site they’ll have seen your affiliate ads on the confirmation page and on the download page, plus any links or ads you’ve included in or with the report. And after signing up to your autoresponder they’ll receive your pre-written series of e-mails, which should include additional helpful content along with your affiliate marketing promotional materials. While some of your affiliate marketing leads will drop out of the series early, others will stay in your loop a lot longer as long as you make sure to include useful, helpful, targeted information along with your pitches. And the greater number of contacts you have with each targeted lead, the higher the possibility that you’ll make the sale and collect your affiliate marketing commissions, all on autopilot.

Once your affiliate funnel is in place, all that remains is to drive as many targeted affiliate marketing leads into it as you can, using all of the standard traffic-generation strategies and techniques. With each funnel you should be able to improve your autoresponder series for higher conversions and be able to drive more targeted prospects into your funnels.

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To see one such funnel in action, download Doug Champigny’s free guide to Building Traffic and Lists. For direct help from this super-affiliate marketing mentor, enroll in Doug Champigny’s Affiliate Marketing PowerStart Coaching program and learn to make money online using effective affiliate marketing strategies and techniques.

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Joel Osborne - Follow this person as @JoelOsborne on Twitter on
August 12, 2010 at
7:12 PM

You’re right on Doug! Funnels can build your business a lot quicker than without them, it’s important to put them in place early, and to keep tracking the conversions to make it better and better.Joel Osborne´s last blog post ..Private Label Rights- Free Custom Graphics Special Offer